Team Pineula

Bbq and a little photoshoot to close off what has been an exciting and successful summer season for our Pineula family 🙌🧡

As we head into winter season a.k.a long distance season - we want to take the time to acknowledge all the people behind the scenes who help all our paddlers get to where they are - our coaches, managers, partners, families, friends & everyone who continues to support us! Also want to acknowledge and send out a massive congratulations to all our paddlers in the club who have been doing the hard yards, putting in the work and performing amazingly on the water! Proud 💯

A big thank you to our supporters and sponsors for looking after us all and providing us with the best gears for both on and off the water 🔥
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Once again, congratulations to all our teams who have qualified to compete at the IVF Va’a World Sprint Championships in Hawaii in August later this year! J16 men - Taurea, J19 women - Hawaiki & Poerava, and Open women - Tavake who will be representing not only the club & our Auckland region but themselves and their families aswell! Shoutout to the members who are trialing for elites to represent NZ in Hawaii too - Goodluck 🧡

Takapuna Beach Cup 2024 🔥

Shoutout to all the paddlers who raced this weekend & everyone who supported the club & made it possible for everyone to compete!

Congratulations to our J16 girls & boys, J19 men & women, Open men, Master men & Senior master men for medalling, absolutely smashing it in your races & for bringing the cup home! 🏆

After a few years of Takapuna cup being cancelled, it was good to see so many waka out on the water & to see everyone enjoying the racing! Thank you to & all the hands behind the scene who made a mean weekend of racing possible! 🧡

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FByBaDpnKcQ&si=s1opxHJ9jz3j6Xe7

PINEULA | TAKAPUNA BEACH CUP PROMO 2024 Sprint season has come to an end and now we shift focus to what we do best.

V1s done 🙌

Massive shoutout to everyone who raced today, got out there and gave it their best 💯 Congratulations to our 7 paddlers who all made podium & a big congratulations to LaRome, Abi, Mercy and Manutea for qualifying for Worlds in August 🤩

Intermediates 🥇🥉
J16s 🥇
J19s 🥇🥉
U23s 🥉
Opens 🥇

Day 2 & 3 of team racing for our intermediates and J16s done. So proud of all our juniors who raced over the past 2 days - congratulations, awesome results 💯🙌

Intermediates 🥇🥇🥈
J16s 🥇🥇

Big congrats to Taurea for qualifying for the W6 500m and W12 500m alongside the Boombullets for world sprints in Hawaii later on this year in August 🤩

Next up - V1’s 🔥

Our Snr boy’s putting it down in Huahine before the start of the toughest 3 day Vaa race. Be safe & enjoy your race brothers 🔥🙏🏿

Team Pineula Snr Masters gun ready for Hawaikii Nui 🙏🏿💪🏽🔥

Good job brother Manutea Millon 🙏🏿

Massive well done and congratulations to all of our club members who represented over at the IVF Va’a World Distance Championships in Samoa 🇼🇸

Kayden, Jesaias, Abi, Jorja, Serenity, Nu’u, Tere, Simon, Manutea and Jeff! 🧡💙

• Manutea securing the Gold in his V1 race and Bronze with the NZ open men’s elite V6 with Tere and Simon!
• Abi coming home with the Gold for V6 with the NZ J19 women elite crew!
• Nu’u securing the Bronze in her V1 and another Bronze in V6 alongside Serenity and Jorja for Team Samoa’s J19 women’s team!
• Jesaias placing 4th with Team Samoa’s J19 men’s crew and 8th in his J16 men V1 race!
• Kayden representing Team Samoa and being the best supporter, volunteer and teammate to her J16 women’s crew!
• Zee guy - our main man always doing the most for everyone & being the best supporter, helper, driver and joker - keeping the spirits high! 🙌

Goodluck to our Senior Master Men heading over to Tahiti to compete in Hawaiki Nui 🔥

Our champion Manutea 🔥🙏🏿

Kia Ora, Talofa, Kia Orana, Malo e lelei, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Ia Orana, Bula, hello and welcome to our team pineula page 🧡💙

It’s been a while since our last post but here’s what the club’s been up to the first 6 months of 2023 🤙

January: Sprint nats at lake Karapiro! The club finished 2nd on the medal tally after a long week of intense racing 🔥
February: Takapuna beach cup was cancelled but the club did a ‘fun’ run with some of the Tahitians that came over - team talifit and a few other paddlers from around the motu 🙌
March: training, training, and more training
April: Long distance nats in Whitianga 🌊
May: Whaingaroa Hoe, George Pomana memorial race & HnF racing
June: Rotohoe, Hard n Fast and more training 💯

Congratulations to Manutea, Tere, Simon and Abigail for making the NZ elite teams going over to Samoa for the IVF world distance championships 🤩

And Congratulations to Jeff, Serenity, Nu’u, Jorja, Kayden and Josais who will be representing their homeland, Samoa, at worlds aswell 🤩

Looking forward to seeing what’s in store for the club and all our paddlers over the next 6 months 🙌 Hoping to post up more to keep our friends and family updated and share our journey with you all!
Thank you to everyone for all the support and love 🫶
Keep tagging us in your posts & stories 🧡💙⚡️

Massive love brother 🙏🏿 Always got your back, u represented all of us well. Massive congratulations on your results 💯🙏🏿

Good job Manutea Millon

Félicitations à Manutea Millon gagnant de la première étape du Te Aito Tahiti 2023.🥇

Congrats to Teremoana Tere & all our club members from juniors to snrs that races & supported the George Pomana memorial race hosted by Te Pou, and coming away with the Memorial Trophy 🙏🏿

Sprint title, & distance title 🙏🏿🙏🏿🔥 Also our v1 paddlers 1st & 3rd in Open mens, 1st & 3rd in master men’s 🙏🏿🙏🏿🔥🔥

New Zealand LDNS champions🇳🇿⚡️🥇


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Massive Congrats to one of our Senior paddlers in the club, Well deserved brother Kingi 🙏🏿

The annual Canoe Racing New Zealand Sports & Recognition awards is nearly upon us and we have nominated a number of our club athletes and volunteers for awards again this year! we are profiling all our nominees to recognise their achievements and contributions to the sport regardless of whether they ultimately receive an award or not.

Meet Kingi Gilbert!
Kingi has been paddling for the last 3 years in sprint canoeing.

Kingi has been nominated by North Shore Canoe Club for the CRNZ Masters Athlete of the Year award.

His most recent significant achievements for which he has been nominated is:

👉 NZ Canoe Sprint Championships 2022
- Masters Men 45-54 K1 200m 1st
- Masters Men 45-54 K1 1000m 1st
- Masters Men K4 500m 3rd

👉Blue Lakes Tikitapu 1 2022
- Men K1 500 - Division 1 1st
- B Final Open Men K2 500 3rd
- Open Men K4 200 1st
- Men K1 200 - Division 1 B final 2nd

👉Blue Lakes Tikitapu 2 2022
- Masters Men K2 500m 2nd
- Masters Men K1 500m 1st

Congrats Kingi ! All the best for the awards! 🤞

Good results from our boys that went down to race today, our Open Men’s, Snr Men’s, & some that filled in with other teams. Congrats to all, & glad everyone survived the M2M race today . 🙏🏿🙏🏿

https://youtu.be/KbQe9GLx_h4

Waka ama nationals 2023 | Pineula | Race edit

For Metua 🙏🏿💥

Greatness, 3 of the best 🙏🏿

Amazingly good 🙏🏿

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Learn from the best 🙏🏿

Kia ora paddlers,
Training clinics are now available with me.
Here’s all the info you need.
-If you want to book your session with me or have any questions, message me on Instagram or Facebook.
-I’ll release the dates for the Blue Flash classes, after Nationals💯😎
-> Don’t Sleep🔨 Train Smart⚡️

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